Quotes About Meaning

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

A lot of people asked us why 'Journey' didn't let them play with friends or family, and obviously we had a reason - because that would have defeated the purpose of the game. But for a game to be truly be accessible to both children and adults and to men and women, it has to allow people to play with the ones they love.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

People often speak about legacy. And when they mention our legacy, I sure hope they don't only mention football.

I abhor mere prettiness.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I'm all for it.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I don't believe films should have a message, but 'Saleem' does.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I try not to look for messages in films.

Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.